The Ballad of Hard Times (1983)
- Original title
- La turlute des années dures
- Directed by
- Richard Boutet, Pascal Gélinas
- Genre
- documentary
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Rating
- 9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This documentary collects stories from people who lived through the Great Depression in Quebec. They describe their hardships and how they survived. The film mixes these personal accounts with folk songs from that era.
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What happens
The Ballad of Hard Times (French: La turlute des années dures) is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Richard Boutet and Pascal Gélinas and released in 1983. The film documents the effects of the Great Depression in Quebec through the testimonies of survivors of the period; the film takes its name from its soundtrack of popular Depression-era Quebec folk music, including the songs of La Bolduc. The film won the Prix L.-E.-Ouimet-Molson from the Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma, and received a Genie Award nomination for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 5th Genie Awards in 1984. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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